Sunflowers
 

We plant the sunflowers for fun, along the edges of the corn plots - but the birds sure do get a lot of use out of them!

They look nice too -





FH

RE: Sunflowers
 

That's a very nice looking field Farm Hunter. What is the turkey population like in your area this year?

Dan O.

RE: Sunflowers
 

How do you keep the deer off of them till they mature?

RE: Sunflowers
 

Hey Dan -

We have a lot of turkeys - this past Spring was a super year for poults - and we see Turkeys almost every day on the property. They'll eat the sunflower seeds - but the songbirds in Sept & Oct are amazing.
The Turkeys really concentrate on Beech Nuts, Ash & Cherry seeds come fall - but in winter - they rely on the standing corn - if there was sunflower seeds still left after Octer

bawabajim -

The deer never eat our sunflowers earlybecause there is plenty of other preferred forage for the amount of deer we have - we plant clover and soybeans (which helps alot) - but also - our neighbor to the East has 30 acres of alfalfa and the neighbor to the South has 40 acres of soybeans.

The Japanese beetles this year worked hard on the sunflowers and soybeans both though!

Winter foods are our deer herd's limiting factor around here.

FH

RE: Sunflowers
 

nice touch!


around here those sunflower patches would bring in the dove like CRAZY!